Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not su...rprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I work here. I carry a badge. My name's Friday. The story you are about to see is true;... the names have been changed to protect the innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This is the only "wet" community in a wide area, and is the rendezvous of cow hands seeking to break the monotony of chuck wagon f...ood and range life. Friday night is the "big time" for local cowboys, and consequently the calaboose is called the "Friday night jail."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good F...riday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,... culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there is ...a holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When we imagine what it is like to be a languageless creature, we start, naturally, from our own experience, and most of what then... springs to mind has to be adjusted (mainly downward). The sort of consciousness such animals enjoy is dramatically truncated, compared to ours. A bat, for instance, not only can't wonder whether it's Friday; it can't even wonder whether it's a bat; there is no role for wondering to play in its cognitive structure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:...In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, k...nucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »